Terveisiä Tomilta
Rostock 15.5.2009 Hej Lauri! Hope you´re fine and had a pleasant trip back home to Helsinki. I just returned from Norway a week ago after 3600km, walking like an injured cowboy and thin as a stick after having "enjoyed" norwegian food and its prices for too long. Had a good and windy beginning in Växjö/Småland, visited an old friend in Vetlanda for 3 days. There my trip seriously started. Had nice, though chilly weather and constant heavy nothern face-winds almost up to Trondheim. Sweden was very pleasant to ride, because it`s possible to avoid the principial roads and use minor ones instead, so I had a quiet week riding across forgotten swedish countryside. I went up to Vänersborg, through Dals- and Värmland across the green border south of Kongsvinger. Having no alternative, I had to roll mostly on riksveger, sharing my narrow space on the road with cars and huge oil- and timbertrucks, which wasn´t funny at all. Southeast Norway is probably the most boring area I´ve ever b
